#paints

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certainly #contents #does #fit #fits

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. ↗

— Ernst Haas

#connect #i #moods #most #painted

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#blue #fields #green #ought #paints

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#gives #great #happening #harlem #movie

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. ↗

— Ellen Key

#ideal #imagination #limit #need #paints

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #because #becomes #images #into

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#blind #feels #himself #man #painting

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#every #good #painting #paints #self-discovery

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should